Chapter 318: The Four Masters at the End of the Bakugaku
In 1868, at the end of the Edo period, Kano Castle was located in the westernmost part of the Choshu Domain of the former Hyuga Province and bordering the Satsuma Domain.
With the Black Ship Mayflower blasting open the gates of Edo fifteen years ago, and the Tokugawa shogunate signing one heinous unequal agreement after another, the whole of Fuso was thrown into chaos.
And these vassal states in the westernmost part of Fuso are naturally the most chaotic places, and the Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Dai, Fran, and even Daqing all have to come to participate.
Smoke and laundry detergent flow here, and you can see foreigners with monocles and young people speaking Cantonese at any time and anywhere along the way.
In the midst of the chaos, there were people with lofty ideals who established the Shogunate faction with the slogan "Respect the King" in order to conquer foreign enemies and fight for the country's thieves, and there were also traditional samurai who adhered to the idea of loyalty to the monarch and always fought for the shogunate.
They adhered to the bushido and were loyal to the monarch and patriotic, and established the Shinsengumi, which continued to protect the entire Satsuma Domain, Choshu Domain, and other western vassal states, and maintained the final order of the entire Edo period.
And the Zayi faction was completely beaten on the ground by the Shinsengumi, who were originally traditional samurai, and they could only survive through assassination, which could not be put on the table.
Even Katsura Kogoro, the current representative of the Choshu Domain's Razor faction, was nicknamed "Runaway Kogoro" by the Shinsengumi people.
In the castle of Kano in Choshu Domain, this is the westernmost part of Honshu Island, almost bordering Kyushu Island, and it can be said that it is the most chaotic place in the whole of Fuso.
In alliance with the Choshu Domain, countless old-fashioned samurai who traditionally adhered to order and loyalty even volunteered to work overtime at night to patrol the streets and kill the bandits.
Inside the izakaya, two samurai enter directly, instantly quieting the original atmosphere here.
"Hey, hey, hey! Bring out the best food and drink you have here! We don't want foreigners' horse urine, give me sake, or Daqing rice wine!" Two samurai, who looked extremely down, but were very presumptuous, yelled unceremoniously at the owner of the izakaya.
Maybe they can't even be called samurai, they can only be called "ronin" or simply "Yakuza" at best.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Samurai-sama, both sake and Daqing's rice wine were sold to the samurai of the Shinsengumi, and we still have cloudy sake......
"Eight Grids!" The down-and-out but arrogant ronin kicked the owner of the izakaya and drew his sword and stuck it on the ground, "Look at it! We are the people of the Restoration! It is precisely because of us that those foreigners dare not be so presumptuous here! What do you mean by that?"
He yelled, constantly snapping his tongue, as if because his status as a reformist was very honorable, and kicked the izakaya owner again.
The other diners also turned their heads to look at the commotion, and the two Vivena Sina people turned their heads, waved their knives indiscriminately, and shouted angrily, "Eat you! What to see! Look at gouging out your eyes!"
Other diners ate their own and felt like they had left in a hurry after eating the soup to avoid getting into trouble.
And the two ronins also quickly sat in the vacant seats, and the owner of the izakaya trembled and sent the koji wine, although this is not rice wine, but it is also Daqing's goods, and these two Restoration aspirants are also more satisfied.
They don't know what wine is, but they only know that they have face with Daqing's wine.
"Oh, Sato-san, in my opinion, the shogunate should have died a long time ago, Tokugawa Keiki that dog thing should have been seppuku a long time ago, and that Shinsengumi, it's the singer, if you like the glory of the samurai so much, then you should apologize for the seppuku!" The two of them shouted loudly without scruples, and some of the words they were in were going to kill their heads in this era.
"Shhh The other said.
The two of them said arrogantly, but those in the know were pure boasting.
The Kansai Shoyi faction was all crushed by the Shinsengumi, and Katsura Kogoro was beaten into an escaped Kogoro, and the so-called four major people were just assassins sent by the Shogunate faction in the case of a head-on enemy, specifically assassinating the shogunate's *** dignitaries, and delaying time.
"Sato-san, who do you say is the strongest among the four people? How are they compared to the Shinsengumi Okita Soji Okita?" The two continued.
"The four major people were killed, Okada Izo of the Tozo Domain, Kagami Hikosai of the Choshu Domain, Hanjiro Nakamura of the Satsuma Domain, and Tanaka Shinbei of the Satsuma Domain. In my opinion, it is still the strongest Kawagami Hikosai of our Choshu Domain." This ronin named Sato said.
"Hikosai Kawakami? I remember that the people of our Choshu Domain should not be called Scarlet Village? It is said that he also has the nickname of Kenshin."
"Scarlet Village is also a nickname, because he directly slaughtered the General's Mansion from top to bottom, from old to young, and blood stained every piece of land in that village, so it is called "Scarlet Village", and his real name is Kawagami Hikosai." Sato explained.
"Zuo Teng-san actually knows such a secret, he really deserves to be a man of lofty ideals, I salute you."
The two ronins were talking here so unscrupulously that almost no one dared to come over.
"Jingle bell......" The bell tied to the door of the izakaya rang.
A man dressed inappropriately with his surroundings walked in, his height of more than one meter and eight meters looked like a little giant here, wearing a thick cowboy leather armor, and the leather armor was inserted with iron plates, and the metallic luster showed the defensive power of this leather armor.
He wears a felt hat on his head and bulges around his waist.
"Boss, let's have the best local food, and bring all the most expensive and best." Said a young man in a cowboy leather armor.
"Okay sir, do you need a drink?"
"No, I've quit drinking, just tea." The young man said, seeing that there was still a place next to the two ronins here, so he sat directly next to him.
And the moment he saw Levi, the two ronins who were still talking eloquently before stopped talking.
They looked at each other, and they seemed to touch their sabers.
And some people who have faintly discovered do not speak, for fear of getting into trouble.
"You have the same face as us, but you're wearing foreigners' clothes, you damn thief! Drink!" The two ronins let out a loud shout, drew the knife in their hands, and slammed towards Levi without any reservation in the small environment.
"Bang bang!"
"Huh, ahhh My hand! My hands, ahhhhh As soon as the two ronins raised their knives, their arms were pierced by bullets, and they fell down in an instant, and they saw that they had to have their limbs amputated.
Levi turned the revolver in his hand, the ordinary revolver produced by Yin Wa, Levi would not use CapitaLand No. 7 against such ordinary people, in that case, the two of them should have turned into ashes.
The speed at which he drew his gun was unbelievably fast, and no one could see clearly how he had drawn his gun and fired two shots in less than 0.1 seconds, and both of them accurately hit the wrists of the two ronins.
"That's a foreign gun......" someone recognized.
However, Levi didn't care, and the izakaya owner quickly served a pot of fish soup, ignoring the two ronins who were still wailing on the ground, and said, "My lord, the food you want......
"Thank you for that." Levi casually put a little bit of broken silver in his hand, ignored all his eyes and began to eat.
Wherever he went, Levi would taste the food beforehand, except for the West India Company during the great expansion of the Americas, and he always felt that the stinking old European food of that era was similar to that of the third brother.
After all, they all have the word "India" in their names.
The two men with pierced wrists hurriedly gritted their teeth to stop the bleeding and bandaged them urgently, and they fled from here with rolling and crawling, and wanted to rush back to the doctor, so that their hands might still be saved.
They hurried out of the izakaya and then yelled, "Damn! The national thief who took refuge in foreigners! Shame on the country! Shame on the country!"
Levi had no idea why they had so much drama, and he liked denim leather armor mainly because the outfit had a clean and breathable function, as if he was wearing new clothes all the time.
He is a pragmatist, and he uses whatever works well. Besides, what does he have to do with Fusang here?
And for this gang of people to ruin
In terms of things, maybe anyone who has anything to do with foreigners, they may have to pull out their knives and hack others to death.
"Be quiet, let's go first, and when the time comes, find someone to kill him, how about wearing a foreigner's equipment? It's not that I can't stop foreign guns."
The two supported each other and hurried away.
But at this time, a tall figure with his whole body under a black robe blocked their way.
"Who!" The two injured ronins are shocked.
If it was before they were injured, they would not have been afraid if they could still hold the knife, but now, they have completely lost the only "force" that can be called on the table, and they can only rely on yelling to strengthen their courage when facing the enemy.
"Is that you, the self-proclaimed Restorationist?" The black-robed man said.
"Huh? We are not ...... Restoration."
But as soon as he spoke, a flash of figure instantly cut his neck, blood splattered, and another ronin ran away frantically, only to see the black bubble man take out a revolver in his arms.
Colt 1835, the earliest revolver, but in every respect, this gun was far stronger than the flintlock pistol.
"Bang!"
The other ronin fell to the ground, twitching on the ground.
"Forget it, I'd rather kill the wrong ones than let them go, otherwise I can only kill the villagers at that time." The black-robed man put away the gun in his hand, and then directly cut off the heads of the two with a knife.
These were his trophies, which could be given to the shogunate to receive a reward.
They were all ninjas of the shogunate and feudal lords, and they roamed the vassals of Kansai in search of warriors to hunt, and each of them had performance indicators, and their heads could be exchanged for bounty money, and even white rice.
The head of a man with lofty ideals can be exchanged for 10 catties of millet, but he can only exchange for one or two white rice, and he even sometimes really wants to kill villagers to exchange for white rice like his colleagues, he has never tasted white rice in his life.
Cutting off his head with ease, he put it in a package of wind cloth, and prepared to look around to see if there were any of those aspirants.
However, he saw a short figure about one and a half meters long, walking towards him quickly, his hand on the knife at his waist.
"Who!"
"Draw the sword!"
The black-robed man Tong Kong contracted, because in an instant, the other party rushed in front of him as if he was teleporting, obviously the distance was nearly fifty meters in one second, and the next second was in front of him, the short body was low, and the cold light in his hand was out of the sheath.
"It's ...... Shrink the ground!"
"Poof!"
The black-robed man was killed in an instant, he didn't even scream, and he didn't even have time to pull out his hand just after putting his hand on the revolver on his waist.
The short man shook the knife in his hand, blood dripping down, he took the knife back into its scabbard, and in the moonlight, took out pieces of paper on his body and threw them on the ground.
On the piece of paper, the two Chinese characters "Tianzhu" are written impressively.
In the moonlight, this short man seemed to be only in his teens, perhaps because he was not very old, and his second surname had not yet had time to develop, and he even looked like a woman.
But even if he is such a child, his killing methods are extremely exquisite, as if he crawled out of countless mountains of corpses and a sea of blood, and it only takes a moment to kill a killer of the shogunate in an instant.
The little boy picked up the hat on the ground and seemed to be ready to leave the place quickly, otherwise the Shinsengumi would be coming.
"Bang bang!" Clear applause rang out in the darkness.
Instantly alert, he lowered his body again and put his hand on the knife at his waist.
"Is this the end of the shogunate, the Shogunate faction and the shogunate faction, so it seems that there is no difference from my impression, two piles of non-combustible music, why do you have to choose between two piles of music." The voice sounded, and Levi walked out, witnessing the whole battle.
There are also nesting dolls, one after another.
The fools of the shogunate faction, who maintained and defended their feudal system, were basically some traditional samurai, because samurai were their profession, they were theirs
Income is their superior power, and they naturally will not give it up and will desperately maintain the shogunate.
The madmen of the Shogunate faction are basically some ronins and emerging forces, killing people and setting fires are all evil, to say that the shogunate faction is an evil order, but it is still barely maintaining basic order, and the Shogunate faction is chaotic evil, and they can do it to slaughter the city in order to achieve their goals.
And after the slaughter of the city, they will say that this is for the future of the new government and the new world, and they are necessary sacrifices.
After the Meiji Restoration, the Shoyi faction will quickly turn into mushroom and fruit doctrine, and even turn into spicy crispy and dharma stones, starting endless wars until a little boy who may have no priest in heaven fall on their heads.
Therefore, Levi felt that neither of these two factions cared, and he could travel to this world with peace of mind and complete some simple item collection.
As for the Shogunate faction and the shogunate faction, whoever likes to take care of it, there will naturally be someone who will make them all feel very hot and get acquainted with each other.
"Is it an overseas businessman? Your Excellency, don't go to the city center at night and take your escort to the city center, there will be better security." The little boy with the hat said, as if to remind Levi.
"Aren't you a rebel? And then let someone else go to the territory of the Shinsengumi?" Levi asked.
"Because it's better over there." He returned.